Albert Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.”

“There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.”

“When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.”

“You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is their favorite movie is that 'Drive' is a 90-minute trip into what a lot of seventies filmmaking was. It encapsulates the best of a certain kind of style, and a style that a lot of people haven't seen before, with the music and the way it's edited.”

“If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.”

“Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.”

“I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.”

“If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.”

“I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.”

“Twitter is the Devil's playground.”